How to Use Retributive in a Sentence?

Retributive sentence example
In primitive society punishment was left to the individuals wronged or their families, and was vindictive or retributive : in quantity and quality it would bear no special relation to the character or gravity of the offence.

What is a retributive sentence?

Retributive justice, response to criminal behaviour that focuses on the punishment of lawbreakers and the compensation of victims. In general, the severity of the punishment is proportionate to the seriousness of the crime.

What means retributive?

1 : recompense, reward. 2 : the dispensing or receiving of reward or punishment especially in the hereafter. 3 : something given or exacted in recompense especially : punishment.

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